“You cannot aspire to represent Spain and make Spain look bad with attitudes that embarrass us”

2023-09-02 14:53:12

The acting President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezhas denied this Saturday that “the unfortunate events” that occurred with the controversy of the suspended president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubialeshave harmed the Spain brand because the reaction of society has been “exemplary”.

“I really believe that the Spain brand is the exemplary reaction of the players of the Spanish soccer team and the spectacular reaction of Spanish society, which has said together with them ‘it’s over’, and that ‘it’s over’ is with all the consequences, also for the leaders who have been involved in these unfortunate events”, Sánchez stressed at a PSOE event in Malaga. However, he has added that “he cannot aspire to represent Spain and make Spain look bad with attitudes that embarrass us.”

He said it a day after the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) will initiate a procedure to sanction Luis Rubiales for two infractions against decorum, without seeing, as the Government does appreciate, abuse of authority in the kiss on the mouth of the player Jenni Hermoso and the obscene gestures he made in the box during the final of the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. A World Cup in which “our players have won twice, once on the field and then giving the world a lesson in equality between men and women”.

“It’s over”

In the act with which he opened the political course of his party, the general secretary of the Socialists wanted to emphasize that “Spain is a feminist country” crossed by an “unstoppable giant wave” of women who have decided “not to submit to never again to men, to their boyfriends, to their husbands, to their bosses, to presidents of sports federations. It’s over.” And it is unstoppable because all women and “millions of men” are committed to them to achieve real and effective equality between the two. “We are going to do it together and together, despite who weighs.”

Why this equality is right now “at risk” as a consequence of the agreements that the Popular Party is reaching with VoxSánchez has warned, citing the example of the president of the Valencian Corts, Llanos Massó, who this Friday was absent from a concentration against sexist violence after the sexist murder of Alzira.

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Although the PP does not need Vox, it has continued, because in Andalusia, Juanma Moreno “continues to finance anti-abortion associations” and in La Rioja, one of his first decisions has been to remove the name of Almudena Grandes from a library.

“The problem is not only Vox, the problem is that the Popular Party has assimilated each and every one of the ideas and postulates and policies of the far-right party,” he has settled.